The Examiner reports that the last time Ireland’s peak summer temperature was so low was in 1965 which had a top temperature of 25.2C at Ballybrittas in County Laois on June 29th.

Meteorological officer Brian Delaney said: “The maximum temperature this summer has been 25.5C at Oak Park and the last time we had a maximum temperature lower than that was in 1965.”

Last year Ireland hit 27.1C twice last summer and 28.6C in 2009 with previous years experiencing a near-record 32.3C scorcher on July 19, 2006, at Elphin, County Roscommon, and 30C in 2005 and 2003.

Forecasters say the unsettled weather is to continue with no chance of a hot spell between now and the end of August.

Parts of Ireland have experienced their coolest August temperatures for almost 20 years.

Met Éireann experts say Cork Airport’s 13.9C average temperature is the lowest for August since 1992 which recorded a temperature of 13.5C while Shannon Airport has averaged 14.8C this month, the coldest since August 1993’s 14.7C.

Temperatures overall have been below average at six of the 10 Met Eireann stations which have current temperature records while July in Dublin was the coolest for half a century when the city’s main weather station at Dublin Airport averaged just 13.8C, the coldest since July 1965.